Re: FVWM: zombie processes

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 19:11:38 -0400

Marcus Lundblad <ml_at_update.uu.se> writes:
> There seems to be a lot of zombie processes started by fvwm2 (mostly
> 'sh').
> Is there something wrong with my rc file?
> Doing 'ps -AH' shows that these processes where forked by fvwm2.
> I suspect they are shells that run commands started through the menus.
> Are these run using 'system()' or 'fork()/execv()'? If run with 'system()'
> it uses the shell to execute the command, right?

What version of fvwm are you running?

How are you launching programs, show us one of
your Exec lines.

Do you have "ExecUseShell" in your config file? If so whats it
set to?

What OS are you using?

Include any other information you think might help us...

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